Mishandling our Christianity
Have you ever put something in the wrong place and then it took you forever to find it? Or maybe you get that new something that you could not live without and in a few short weeks or months you realize you haven’t been using it and think of the fun times you’ve missed not having it? Well these are some of the questions that come to mind as I was doing my quite time and studying for the message for the students Wed. night. How many times do we misplace or mishandle our walk with Christ or “misplace” Him and then figure out that we’ve missed out on so much that God’s had for us.
We look at David’s life and see that he does all of this after conquering the Philistines and getting the Ark of God back. He puts the Ark in another mans land or house because he is mad at God for killing Uzzah for touching the Ark (II Samuel 6:1-11). But, David realizes that he has been missing out on all the blessing of God because he does not take care of it himself. David mishandles his relationship with God by the way he allows the men to carry the Ark even though God was very clear through Moses and Aaron how to handle the Ark. God is very clear in Exodus and in Numbers on the way the Ark was to be built and handled. So, what was the big problem? David mishandles his relationship with God and does not allow it to stay top priority in his life and also he misses out on blessing God could of had for him.
So I ask again how have we “mishandled our Christianity or our walk with Christ” lately? From this point on we see that David begins a slight down hill run with the people around him and also with his relationship with God. And this is usually how it all begins on that slippery icy bunny slope.
